There are many places in this world that claim the title of “big sky country”, but to me the biggest of the big skies is out on the open sea. This is where we can observe the ever changing atmosphere with no visual interruption and no filters. And to boot, it neatly meets the ocean…
Environments: Forest Interiors, pt. 2
One of the joys of living in my new home in Santa Fe, NM is being able to walk out of my house and walk right into the Santa Fe National Forest and the Sangre de Cristo mountains. I grew up hiking and climbing in the furry forests of the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New…
Environments: Forest Interiors, pt.1
Much of my history as a landscape photographer has been about the landscape and its relationship with some physical evidence of human activity and settlement. All in the pursuit of ‘defining’ the idea of landscape in a specific time and point of view. Recently, on a trip to northern California, I found myself taking a…
Henri Cartier-Bresson on the “figure in nature”
“There is no closed figure in nature… Every shape participates with another…. and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.”
The Odd Architectural Assignment….
Though now mostly a portrait and landscape photographer, I still regularly get calls, and am called back to my early commercial photography days when I had something of a specialty in architectural and interior photography in the Washington, D.C. area. In the 90’s, I was first assistant to the great architectural shooter Maxwell Mackenzie, from…
Who Am I?
Who am I? A good question to ask yourself every now and again, and especially germane at the beginning of a new year and the launching of a new blog that I’m really excited about. This will be an opportunity for me to share new work, beginnings, interesting visual discoveries, thoughts, words, travels and anything…